Quote Originally Posted by quadalpha View Post
Have you tried doing what you suggested, viz., keep a reserve?
Never saw the need to since techs don't really give you better guns nor does XP give you more range. So more guns being brought to bear would seem to be the winning strategy here, not holding guns back. Now, unless the first line can whittle down the enemy's whole line so you reserves can break them with a shot, that would be a different story. But the fact that they have more guns bearing on your fewer guns allows them to kill your army in piecemeal.

Actually the best strategy would be to shoot the enemy and fall back immediately and repeat so they can't set up and return fire.